Overview of Meshmixer areas

- [Instructor] First off, I want to welcome youto Mesh Mixer.This is the opening screen of Mesh Mixer,and you will see all of this.You may have a different 3-D printer listed up here.But this is the opening screen.You have a couple differentbuttons here, import and open.Open is talking about Mesh Mixer's default file extension,which is a dot mix, m-i-x.And Import is for normal stl, obj,all sorts of different models.

You can also start with a bunny, a sphere,or a plane.So if you click on the bunny, you will get a bunny.And if you notice that I'm rotating around,I am right-clicking and holding down theright mouse button to move around.The middle mouse button, when you hold it down, pans.And the mouse wheel moves in and out.I highly recommend that you use a 3-button mousebecause that makes everything with CAD so much easier.

On the left-hand side, you have all of your menu options.Import is what I just talked aboutwhere it allows you to bring-in, appending,or replacing different objects inside.You can click on Mesh Mix, which brings up a lot ofvery neat shapes that you can drag and droponto your mesh, and dynamically move them, and add them,and append them on.Very fun.Selecting allows you to select when you'reclicking and dragging over certain parts of your modelto do very interesting things.

Anything where you need to affect just one partof your model is done in the Select tool.Sculpting allows you to play with digital clay.You have all sorts of tools here that allow you tocreate and destroy and flatten.And in this case, smooth different parts of your mesh.All sorts of really fun tools inside of sculpt.Stamp allows you to create stamps on your mesh.

Like that.Stamps can then be used with something likethe select tool to extrude those out andmake awesome, neat, fun shapes on the surfaceof your mesh using stamps.Edit is where you change your model all at once.Or you could do all sorts of things withaligning, or transforming,hollowing, cutting.All sorts of different things with all ofyour model all at once, which is done in the edit tool.

Analysis allows you to understand what'sgoing on with your mesh.You can measure, do a mesh query to see how muchcurvature is in your model,all sorts of different things you can learnabout your model in analysis.Under shaders, you have different ways ofjust viewing your model.These are not the final color that your modelwill be printed in, but more help you kind ofvisualize and look at your modelas you work with it.

The default shader for Mesh Mixer is up here at the top.And it's the first one.So you go here and you get some different colors.I'll talk about these colors indifferent parts of the class.But these are face groups right here,there's special kind of helper colorsfor Mesh Mixer that you see when you usethe Mesh Mixer shader.There's other ones like this, this is called theX-ray shader to see through your model.All sorts of neat ways to just visualize your model.If you click on export, it allows youjust to easily save your model out in manydifferent file formats.

And finally, the print opens up a 3-D print interfacewhere it allows you to visualize your modelon a virtual printer bed.Again, welcome to Mesh Mixer, and I hope that thisshort little introduction to the different areasthat you see on the left-hand side in Mesh Mixer,opens up a world of possibility to youthat you will unlock in the rest of this class.Thanks so much.

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10/10/2017

Get started with Meshmixer, the powerful 3D modeling utility from Autodesk. This 3D modeling multi-tool is unique in that it's not just helpful for creating digital sculptures—it also offers some exceptional features for making your ideas interface with the real world via 3D printing. In this course, join Nick Kloski as he introduces the many features of Meshmixer, from 3D scan cleanup, to sculpting, to 3D print preparation. Nick explores how to evaluate and fix downloads from online sites, sculpt creations using digital clay, create a 3D model from a photograph, and more.

This course was recorded and produced by HoneyPoint3D. We're pleased to host this training in our library.